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Anthony M. Ungerer, P.G., President, EHS Regulatory Affairs
B.G. (Bill) Johnson, Ph.D., Senior EHS Manager
Howard “Buck” Barker, P.E., Senior Project Engineer
Christopher J. Rog, P.G., Senior Hydrogeologist
Brian D. Rutherford, Safety / Regulatory Manager
Anthony
M. Ungerer, P.G.
President, EHS Regulatory Affairs
As the former Environmental Affairs Advisor to Printing Industries of Wisconsin (PIW), a Wisconsin trade association and affiliate of Printing Industries of America, Inc. (PIA) / Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (GATF), Mr. Ungerer served both as an industry advocate and as a consultant for PIW members. His responsibilities as Environmental Affairs Advisor was to serve the industry as an advocate on many WDNR compliance committees. He was heavily involved in many of the WDNR’s permit streamlining efforts and workgroups. Mr. Ungerer was also relied upon to positively represent the industry when working with regulators on rule or policy interpretations or development. He also assisted PIW members directly in complying with local, state, and federal environmental and safety regulations. Mr. Ungerer has encountered just about every color of compliance need exposed to the printing industry. His numerous experiences and contacts with WDNR and EPA regulators have honed his skills at dealing successfully with compliance issues for any manufacturing industry.
As President of PETRA Environmental Consultants, Inc. (PETRA) Mr. Ungerer offers not only vast industrial compliance consulting experience and regulatory knowledge, but also a solid background in geologic and hydrogeologic studies including over 100 leaking underground storage tank (LUST) and petroleum clean up projects. Mr. Ungerer has also been involved in feasibility studies for municipal waste water treatment facility projects. In addition, he has performed numerous UST Closure Assessments and Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessments for real estate transactions throughout Wisconsin. Mr. Ungerer also offers experience in litigation and expert testimony.
Previous to the incorporation of PETRA, Mr. Ungerer served a larger environmental firm as the District and Office Manager. His responsibilities there included management of office, personnel, marketing, and business affairs; he also conducted project management and field work during remedial investigations, closure assessments, and environmental assessments, throughout Wisconsin. Mr. Ungerer's diverse environmental experience is further supported by a sound background in industrial air and hazardous waste compliance, and in asbestos consultation.
Education
B. S., Geology, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 1986
Certifications and Qualifications
NR 500.03(64), NR 600.03(98), and NR 712.03(1) Qualified Hydrogeologist, Wisconsin DNR
State of Wisconsin Registered Professional Geologist (#554-013), Wisconsin Dept. of Regulation and Licensing
Affiliations
- Association of
Groundwater Scientists and Engineers
- Printing Industries
of Wisconsin.
- Graphic Arts Technical
Foundation
- Printing Industries of America
- Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce.
B.G. (Bill) Johnson, Ph.D.
Senior EHS Manager
Dr. Johnson is currently handling OSHA-related safety compliance activities for PETRA. Emphasis will be on helping printers comply with OSHA’s Hazard Communications Standard and Lockout/Tagout Standard. Compliance includes the preparation of written programs and procedures manuals, and associated training. Bill has prepared these kinds of documents and conducted training for more than 35 different printers in Wisconsin.
Bill has more than 30 years of experience in environmentally related activities. Previous to working directly with PETRA, Bill was the president of B.G. Johnson & Associates (BGJA) of Waupaca, Wisconsin. He also served as the Environmental Affairs Advisor to Printing Industries of Wisconsin (PIW) for more than 15 years prior to Mr. Ungerer’s term at the trade association. Prior to his service to PIW, Bill served as General Manager with a large multidisciplinary consulting firm, conducting environmental impact assessments for industry, worldwide, for a number of years prior to forming BGJA for consulting in the environmental sciences.
Dr. Johnson received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in the fields of Agronomy, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, specializing in agricultural chemistry (pesticides).
Howard “Buck” Barker, P.E.
Senior Project Engineer
Management plans including the analysis of storm water flows, design of detention systems and models of pollutant source loading have been the focus of Mr. Barker’s services to commercial and industrial clients including owners, architects and engineers. His experience includes development of storm water management plans complying with NR 216 Storm Water Discharge Permits and NR 151 Runoff Management requirements for new construction. In addition, he has provided assistance in meeting the requirements of Wisconsin State Statute Chapter 30 – Navigable Waters, Harbors and Navigation for grading activities near rivers and lakes.
He has helped organize a program that helps assess facility applicability to the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) program outlined by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (Clean Water Act Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 112). This is a tiered but comprehensive program that is used to quickly and easily evaluate the applicability of, or exemption from, the law. He has helped clients comply with these regulations through site visits, compilation of data, to formulate a SPCC plan meeting federal requirements.
Other services he has provided include Civil Site Developments including schematic, grading and utility plans for commercial and professional projects. He has also conducted forensic investigations and provided expert testimony in cases regarding construction materials failures. In addition, he has written and performed photography used by construction and quality assurance personnel on project sites.
Professional Highlights:
- 26 years engineering experience in Wisconsin.
- 11 years broad project management experience as president of an engineering firm.
Monitored construction services for over 620 clients. - WisDOT QMP Project services involving over 46 miles of paving & 7 bridges
Responsible for as many as 37 employees including engineers and technicians. - Technical Representative for the Wisconsin Ready Mixed Concrete Association (WRMCA).
- Public Speaker/Educator of WisDOT/Highway Technician and ACI Certification Programs.
Education:
B. S. in Engineering, Michigan Technological University – Major: Civil Engineering 1980
Registration:
Registered Professional Engineer: Wisconsin #12727
Professional Activities:
- Construction Specifications Institute
- American Society for Testing & Materials
- American Concrete Institute
Christopher
J. Rog, P.G.
Senior Hydrogeologist
Mr. Rog has worked as a professional geologist and hydrogeologist in increasing levels of responsibility for nearly a decade. Beginning with an Associates Degree in Geology from Grossmont College in San Diego in 1979, Mr. Rog went on to gain his Bachelor of Science Degree from Colorado State University in 1982, and gained his Master of Science Degree in Geology from the University of Minnesota at Duluth in 1988.
Mr. Rog has worked on a variety of geologic and natural resource oriented projects, including those involving mineral, soil, and groundwater resources in eleven states. This broad spectrum of project experience has led Mr. Rog to interactions with virtually all levels of regulatory agencies, including the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, the Montana Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, and others.
Mr. Rog has served many clients in the environmental field, clients from both the municipal and private sectors. Mr. Rog's experiences and responsibilities are not limited to technical geologic issues - most environmental work conducted by Mr. Rog has required sound fiscal management and accounting to ensure compliance with applicable statutes governing grants available to Mr. Rog's clients. Additionally, Mr. Rog's role has been to provide staff management and to ensure that clients remain well informed of the often complex and highly technical project details. To sum, Mr. Rog's educational and professional experiences, combined with his ability to effectively manage fiscal matters and keep clients fully appraised of project status, have made him one of the most well-respected environmental consultants in the field.
The following projects are cited as a range of examples of Mr. Rog's applied experience.
- Mr. Rog has conducted
many UST investigations in Wisconsin, often under rapidly evolving state
protocols. Among these are projects in all types of environments, including
sand, clay till, and bedrock. Levels of contamination have ranged from
no detection to free product, with several sites involving the removal
of free petroleum product from the water table surface. In addition
to conducting the site investigations, Mr. Rog has also assisted in
designing the site cleanups using such techniques as soil excavation
to landfill and to incinerators, soil vapor extraction, and groundwater
cleanup with stripping towers.
- Over the past
few years, Mr. Rog has conducted more than seventy Phase 1 and 2 Environmental
Property Assessments (EPRAs). These have included sites as diverse as
rural vacant lots to active industrial facilities.
- Mr. Rog has implemented
bedrock core drilling to assess the status of numerous sites in the
western and Midwestern U.S. Projects involving this level of work require
supervision of field staff and a detailed understanding of the earth's
dynamic geologic systems.
- Mr. Rog has managed over seventy-five site investigations and/or remediation involving spills of hazardous substances. These projects require a detailed understanding of the complex regulatory framework surrounding these types of spills.
Education
A.A. Physical Geology, Grossmont College, San Diego, California, 1979
B.S. Geology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, 1982
M.S. Geology, University of Minnesota - Duluth, 1987
Certifications & Qualifications
ILHR 10 Certified UST Site Assessor and ILHR 47 PECFA Program Participant (#04429)
Wisconsin DILHR NR 500.03(64), NR 600.03(98), and NR 712.03(1) Qualified Hydrogeologist, Wisconsin DNR
Affiliations
- National Ground Water Association
- Wisconsin Ground Water Association
- American Association of Professional Geologists - CPG #9444
- Wisconsin Registered Professional Geologist #0412
Brian D. Rutherford
Safety / Regulatory Manager
Mr. Rutherford is the Safety Regulatory Manager for PETRA Environmental. Brian has twenty years of safety experience in OSHA compliance and risk management for printing and publishing, manufacturing and construction companies. His previous position with PIA MidAmerica was Regulatory Manager of PIA MidAmerica's Heartland Region headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, where he functioned as the safety director for twelve PrintGuard Consortium members and taught the nation’s only OSHA-enveloped 10-Hour Class for General Industry specific to the graphic communications sector. He acted as Corporate Safety Coordinator for Purolator Products Company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma where he was responsible for the occupational safety and health of 3,500 workers at 24 facilities in the automotive parts and filtration products manufacturing sector. He has worked extensively in the commercial insurance industry serving a wide variety of manufacturing, construction, transportation, health care, municipal, governmental and institutional clients in all property and casualty lines. Prior to joining PIA, Brian worked for two years as a private safety consultant working with manufacturing and construction companies.
Brian's strengths lie in his ability to isolate customer needs and pinpoint service in those areas that bring the most value to your organization. He is a veteran of dozens of OSHA and other agency compliance inspections and will help prepare your company for that inspection you hope never happens, and target injury and incident prevention as a primary goal of your regulatory efforts. He is a talented communicator and dynamic trainer, incorporating state-of-the-art training techniques with a no-nonsense style that reaches out to your workers and commands their attention and behavior modification. In addition, he is a recognized leader in the safety field within the printing and publishing industry, with over 15,000 employees and 1,000 supervisors and managers trained in safety and health topics. He has issued hundreds of OSHA completion cards for students completing10- and 30-Hour classes in both General Industry and Construction.
When he’s not serving PETRA customers in Madison, Milwaukee and throughout Wisconsin, Brian is working in his second career: Captain Rutherford is Operations Officer for A-10 Aircraft Maintenance for the 442d Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. He has been a member of the U.S. Air Force Reserve since 1986 and his previous positions have included a brief stint as Executive Officer, five years as an Aircraft Structural Repair Specialist and seven years as a Ground Safety Technician. He spent 2003 deployed as Maintenance Officer-In-Charge at Kirkuk Air Base, Iraq while participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Education
B. S., Safety Management, Central Missouri State University, 1988
Minor: Industrial Security
Certifications and Qualifications
State of Missouri Certified Safety Consultant
Affiliations
- Printing Industries of Wisconsin
- Printing & Imaging Association of MidAmerica
- Printing Industries of St. Louis
- Printing Industries Association of the South
- Graphic Arts Technical Foundation
- Printing Industries of America.
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